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A couple of people said they'd be interested in doing another month at least. Any takers? Thinking the theme could be 'seasons' (although we may already have had something similar, I don't have a list). Ideas for themes are welcome too, obviously.

These mixes get me places in my record collection I wouldn't normally go. We've had similar to seasons before with weather and nature. Sport could be ok (but won't know for sure until starting to look for sport themed music!)

to have enough from which to make a choice - so Sport sounds unpromising enough to give a go. I've already done a winter mix before and I really want to do a heat sort of mix, but better to be challenged I reckon.

I'm glad! I like trawling through my music to find stuff that'll fit with the theme - have already reminded myself about School of Seven Bells' debut album and Holy Fuck's last one in looking for sporty songs (neither album contains anything even tenuously sporty though, unfortunately).

brain your is on cd it just needs some art and a post. atypical for me as there's only a smidgen of ambient, modern classical in there (still 2 tracks) but Sports fairly obviously more of a guitar or hard beat topic.

Many thanks for your sport mix. Arrived the other day but I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet. A few unknowns from the track listing so looking forward to giving it a few spins. Will report back.
My mix is in it's final stages and should be out to you sometime this week.

A hard subject to avoid the obvious I think - there are loads of songs about sport but most of them are awful. I think I've only gone with 2 or 3 of the most obvious choices, partly by stretching things a bit (is Frisbee really a sport?).

Hope it's more fun than the Netherlands - Argentina semi, but not likely to be as startling as Germany - Brazil.

soundtracked my afternoon in preference to the bloody English cricketers. Roy Harper is coming on just as Broad and Root try to salvage something from a woeful afternoon. This is a great mix, not least for Booker T & The MGs (which I somehow don't have). I like that I've heard virtually none of this (despite the quality of the artists), with particular favourites being:

Kraftwerk (I've inexplicably barely listened to them, despite being a real fan of all the derivative genres they spawned)
Aural Exciters (quite amusing)
Dennis Alcapone (prefer it to the Wave Pictures track of the same name)
ILudicrous (odd but good)
The Mountain Goats (only heard one of theirs before, but this is similarly humorous)

I'd thought about putting The Streets on mine (I have the same feelings about darts as frisbee, it was that or Darts of Pleasure by FF), and I did put the Decemberists on mine - also a great tune. Thanks for the time in putting it together - I'll be playing it some more!

brainfeedr - glad to hear you got my comp, let me know how you get on.

shucks - did you receive your art comp?

pale-eyedbadger - you are my sports recipient this month, and it's nearly done. may even be in the post this week. you may have already got one off me (i certainly remember getting a good one off you) so commiserations/congratulations depending on whether you enjoyed the last one you received.

Yeah, I am also in RG1 5**. I dug out your nice Heaven/Hell comps this morning, from all the way back in March 2013. I've a feeling you may well have not received one from me after-all as in the early days I don't think i was automatically sending back a disc to those who sent me one.

One of my favourite DiS mix tapes so far.
I like the disc of two halves idea, lots of bands I never really listen to over both halves - McClusky, FotL, Electrelane. Never given Half man Half Biscuit to much time in the pass but will do now. A bit late to The Wave Pictures but one of my favourite discoveries of this summer - saw them a EofR too. Lovely stuff! Cheers

Martin Creed was a great opener.
I love that Fuck Buttons track (I think it made it onto my Art mix too iirc). Hadn't heard of Quickspace and was a big fan of that track too (would've preferred it to be instrumental but you can't have everything).
Birthday Party was pretty terrifying but great.
HUGE fan of the Rachel's and Mick Turner tracks - will definitely be exploring more of their stuff.
Overall a very enjoyable CD - wasn't wild on Art Brut but loved/really liked everything else which is a pretty astonishing success rate given the generous runtime.

Glad to hear it - mainly - hit the spot. To give you my thoughts on the bands you may follow up:

Quickspace - this is is pretty atypical of their stuff, but as a pseudo-kraut rock work out it can't be beaten for me. My favourite album by them is Self-titled (1996) which is a humdinger. But be warned - it does involve a lot of vocal inter-play. But I guess one man's atonal honking is another's KY jelly for the soul.

Rachel's. I can't recommend the album the track on the comp came from enough - Music For Egon Schiele, one of my favourite albums of all time and never bettered by them for my ears. Rachel Grimes solo piano stuff is also worth pursuing.

Mick Turner - My favourite guitarist ever, just love the shapes he makes with his instrument. He's playing Reading in August which is clearly the most exciting thing to happen in Reading in the 18 months I've lived here. His latest album, Don't Tell the Driver (2013), is the probably the one that sounds most like Dirty Three minus the other two (if that's what you're after), the track you got came from Marlan Rosa (1999) which could well be my favourite. He did a disc with Will Oldham, Get On Jolly (2000) under the name Marquis de Tren which i think best presents his guitar playing (without Warren Ellis fannying around on top of it).

Really liked the tracks by Kurt Vile, DLM, Delakota, Depth Charge and Stereolab (oh, what a bassline!). Great humour in the form of 12th man and The Brat too. I had a 12th man tape years ago - such a good take on Richie Benaud and those Indian names are brilliant.